Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation

- to study the main features of the general mechanisms of cultural processes as an historical-cultural interpretative key to help the learning of the concepts of normality, health, illness, disability, handicap and the historical evolution of assistance, care and rehabilitation;
-Improve the knowledge of the theoretical principles underlying psychiatric rehabilitation and the methods of the rehabilitation interventions; study the mechanism of the evolution and characteristics of the theory and conceptual models of psychiatric rehabilitation;
- to take a deeper look of the ethical and historical aspects of medicine with a particular interest in psychiatric rehabilitation.

To achieve a good historical knowledge about the development of psychiatry as a specific discipline, including the evolution of the main theoretical models and the work done by the rehabilitation technicians.